AIG's troubles are not entirely their fault; paying the bonuses is actually in the taxpayers' best interest.

The taxpayers profit not only from paying the AIG bonuses, but from hoping that they're even bigger next year.

Our government has finally taken an effective step to deal with our ever-expanding pension liabilities.

The more the government meddles in food, drugs, and nutrition, the worse the confusion becomes.

Sure enough, struggling Americans do cling to guns, religion, and family.

No. But why not?

We call fundamentalist Islam "barbaric" only because we cannot find a harsher word.

Pension plans all over America are about to collapse.

Islamic terror is uncivilized. We are in a Fight Against Barbarism, and should call it such.

How a religion prefers to be spread has a profound influence on how well it gets along with other religions.